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"Her grandmother had worked as a topless mermaid. 'And if it was good enough for my nan, it was good enough for me.'" (Who Wants To Be A Billionaire? March 22.) So now we know: Katie Price's most drastic plastic surgery was the operation to remove her tail.

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What is it like to devote two hard years to running for the White House - and then fail? Ed Pilkington talks to former presidential candidates about the shattering loss, the humiliation and the elite club they call the Misery Circle

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He has swum the Danube, the Yangtze, the Mississippi and even - the longest and deadliest swim in history - the Amazon. Now Martin Strel is taking on the Thames. Sam Wollaston slips on a wetsuit to join him

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When Marjane Satrapi was a rebellious 14-year-old in Tehran, her parents sent her to Europe, afraid she'd fall foul of the Revolutionary Guard. Now she has turned her comic book memoir into an award-winning film. She talks to Simon Hattenstone

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